Jerry Pubantz is the Director of the Lloyd International Honors College. His writings include works on the United Nations, U.S.-Russian Relations, the Middle East, and American Foreign Policy. He is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the United Nations, recently released in an expanded second edition, and the co-author of The New United Nations: International Organization in the 21st Century and of To Create a New World? American Presidents and the United Nations, honored with CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2000 by the American Library Association. Dr. Pubantz is a member of the Middle East Policy Council's National Advisory Board, a former President of the North Carolina Political Science Association, the co-founder of the Southern Association of Pre-law Advisers, and the former Chairman of the National Collegiate Conference Association, corporate sponsor of the National Model United Nations in New York City. He has lectured at universities and colleges across the nation and internationally. As Director, he works with UNCG's faculty and administration to set the general mission of the Honors College and to develop courses and international opportunities for its students.

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Dr. Sarah Krive is Assistant Director of the Lloyd International Honors College. She received her BA cum laude from Carleton College before earning her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on intersections of language and emotion in Russian literature and culture. A recipient of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she edited and contributed to Space, Time, Place: A Festschrift for Anna Lisa Crone. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2007. Her book manuscript, Poetry and the Politics of Sorrow: Appropriating Anna Akhmatova, is under consideration at a major academic press. She has lived for extended periods in Russia, Nepal, and Singapore, and most recently traveled to the Baltic Sea region. As Assistant Director of Honors, she works with the Director to manage day-to-day operations of the Honors College, mentors students for nationally-competitive postgraduate fellowships and scholarships, oversees recruitment into LIHC, coordinates the Honors Proseminar, and teaches Honors courses, including Literary St. Petersburg; Memory and Forgetting; Russian Folklore; Russian Literary Film Adaptation; and Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

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Dr. Stacey Peebles is Assistant Director of the Lloyd International Honors College. She studied for ten years at the University of Texas at Austin, earning her B.A. in English and the Plan II Honors Program with a minor in Spanish, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English. From 2004 to 2009, she was a professor and administrator in the Honors College of the University of Houston, where she coordinated an Honors minor in Politics and Ethics and taught "The Human Situation," a year-long course covering ancient and modern texts in literature, philosophy, history, and political science. Her research focuses on the representation of war and violence, and she has published a number of articles on Cormac McCarthy, her favorite writer, as well as articles on Flannery O'Connor, Terrence Malick, and Michael Herr. She is working on a book titled Battle Rattle in the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq. As Assistant Director of LIHC, she coordinates co-curricular activities, works with departments on Disciplinary Honors offerings, and teaches Honors classes.

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Ryan Radford is the Honors Academic Adviser in the Lloyd International Honors College. He earned his BA in Political Science from UNCG and was an Honors College graduate in 2007. During his time as a student at UNCG, Ryan was active in Student Government, Model UN, Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science honor society) and served as President of the College Republicans. After graduation, Ryan worked for a well-known political consulting firm in Raleigh advising political campaigns and crafting public affairs strategies for trade associations. Ryan is thrilled to have the opportunity to advise Honors College students and help them benefit from its programs as much as he did. If you have questions about completing an Honors program, please email or call Ryan to set up an appointment.

Melvalyn Pate is Administrative Assistant for the Lloyd International Honors College. Ms. Pate has dedicated over 15 years to the field of higher education. She orchestrates many of the technical aspects that are central to the operations of the Honors College. Her responsibilities include maintaining the budget, coordinating personnel, and serving as secretary for the office.

 

 

Rachel Cuellar is an undergraduate assistant in the LIHC. A Junior majoring in Biology with a Minor in Chemistry & Environmental Studies, she has completed International Honors with an international experience studying in Spain and is currently pursuing Disciplinary Honors in Biology.

 

Rajiv Pamidimukkala is the Graduate Student Assistant in the Lloyd International Honors College. He is from Bangalore, India. Rajiv is currently pursuing his Master's Degree in Computer Science at UNCG.

 

 

Kelsey Maher is an undergraduate assistant in the LIHC. She is a sophmore majoring in International Global Studies with a concentration in Europe, as well as a minor in Russian Studies. Kelsey holds an Alumni Merit Scholarship, and is a member of the LIHC. She studied abroad in Tartu, Estonia, and hopes to study abroad once more in Kazan, Russia.

 

 

Heather Thornbrough is an undergraduate assistant in the LIHC. She is a junior Accounting major, with a minor in Economics. Heather holds the Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Scholarship, is a member of the LIHC, and is also a University Marshal. She plans to study abroad in Scotland in Spring 2010, and return to UNCG for graduate school.